High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Dr Sir Joseph Ellis Stone, Baron Stone (27 May 1903 – 17 June 1986) was an officer in the British Army, and a doctor, most notably to Harold Wilson. He was given the name of Joseph Ellis Silverstone. He was knighted, and then created a life peer in the 1976 Prime Minister`s Resignation Honours with the title Baron Stone, of Hendon in Greater London, on 24 June 1976.